Hospitals: Admissions
(asked on 12th January 2026) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of people admitted to hospital in (a) England and (b) Surrey were aged between (i) 30- 39 and (ii) 40 and 49, (iii) 50 and 59 in the past year.
NHS England does not publish hospital admissions broken down by age. Instead, it publishes numbers of ‘Finished Consultant Episodes’ (FCEs) which means a completed hospital treatment session under a consultant. This data is available at the following link:
NHS England publishes data by financial year, meaning the most recent available dataset relates to 2024/25. The following table shows the number and proportion of FCEs by age for patients aged 30 to 39 years old, 40 to 49 years old, and 50 to 59 years old in England in 2024/25:
Age | FCEs | Percentage of total FCEs |
30 to 39 | 2,224,531 | 9.9% |
40 to 49 | 1,823,660 | 8.1% |
50 to 59 | 2,609,207 | 11.6% |
The information is collected at integrated care board (ICB) level, not by county. In addition, the following table shows the number and proportion of FCEs by age for patients aged 30 to 39 years old, 40 to 49 years old, and 50 to 59 years old in the NHS Frimley ICB and the NHS Surrey Heartlands ICB, both of which are within Surrey, in 2024/25:
| NHS Frimley ICB | NHS Surrey Heartlands ICB | ||
Age | FCEs | Percentage of total FCEs | FCEs | Percentage of total FCEs |
30 to 39 | 24,030 | 10.3% | 39,665 | 10.0% |
40 to 49 | 19,585 | 8.4% | 32,715 | 8.3% |
50 to 59 | 26,765 | 11.5% | 44,305 | 11.2% |